About this Event
About the Book:
US Embassies of the Cold War: the Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense is a large-format, photo-driven book featuring the fourteen most significant midcentury modern American Embassies designed by leading architects, including; Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone. The Cold War embassies are being decommissioned and sold, replaced by high-security compounds. The book is available at OneraFoundation.org. All proceeds from book sales will benefit the Onera Foundation and its mission to inform and engage the public about historic preservation and significant architecture.
“This book is an open-eyed investigation into the results of the unlikely meeting between progressive culture and public policy at a particular moment in time. With an extraordinary collection of photographs and graphics not seen elsewhere, Peterson enables us to know that past, reckon with what was once significant, and learn about options that may exist today or tomorrow in a rapidly changing global landscape.” -Historian and author Jane Loeffler, Ph.D
About David B. Peterson:
David B. Peterson is the Executive Director of the Onera Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to supporting historic preservation in the United States. Mr. Peterson is Board Chair of the Harlem Academy school, an independent NYC school offering promising students a leading education regardless of economic circumstance. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Glass House, a National Trust Historic site in New Canaan, Connecticut, and is a board member of The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, a public-private partnership with the US State Department dedicated to providing permanent works of American art for U.S. embassies worldwide. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from New York University, and a MS in Historic Preservation from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense is his first book.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, United States
USD 10.00 to USD 15.00
